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- CommentAuthorasplundj
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
For some author I get the first name in the in-text citation in word. How may I fix this?
example:
(J. Asplund & Gauslaa, 2008) -
- CommentAuthorarggem
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
Check the author field in the right column. Make sure it it set for "two fields," not single. This puts last name first.
To change, click the little white space that is between the name and the - + signs.
If this fixes your problem, you will need to change each item that has single field selected.
If it doesn't fix your problem, please write back! -
- CommentAuthorasplundj
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
It's already set to "two fields" so that wasn't it -
- CommentAuthorasplundj
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
and as you see in the example it's only for one of the authors however the second author also have a first name letter in the database -
- CommentAuthorTjowens
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
which style are you using? -
- CommentAuthorasplundj
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
It's not style-specific. I'm experiencing this with all (Author-Date) styles -
- CommentAuthorTjowens
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
can you export the reference you are having trouble with in Zotero RDF and email it to me, trevor@zote...org -
- CommentAuthorTjowens
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
I got your email and could not replicate the issue, I will play with a bit more and see if I can. In your email you mentionedThe same reference can be correct and wrong in the same word-document
With that noted, and the fact that they worked fine for me we can rule out an issue with the styles and the way the names are formated in your collection.
When you hit the refresh button do they switch back to normal? -
- CommentAuthorasplundj
- CommentTimeJun 6th 2008
They don't turn back to normal. I couldn't replicate the issue in a new document but in that document I can't get it right -
- CommentAuthorakinto
- CommentTimeJun 11th 2008
The problem happens to me if the author uses her first name in a book chapter, but her initials in an article, or her first name and middle initial. If there's any variance, the software works extra hard to distinguish the variants as different authors, I think.
T. S. Eliot and Thomas Stearns Eliot would each get cited in the text as different people. The only way I can make it stop is to edit the entries to be consistent, which is not what the author or editor intended. -
- CommentAuthorovande
- CommentTimeJul 3rd 2008
I have the same problem here and it happens only in book section. I did not quit understand what the last person did to solve the problem. can someone help with a fix for this.
ovande -
- CommentAuthorTjowens
- CommentTimeJul 7th 2008
Zotero, and for that matter any other bibliographic software I can think of, simply have no way to know that T. S. Eliot is the same person as Thomas Sterns Eliot as opposed to a different person named Trevor Stanley Eliot.
For the foreseeable future you will need to make sure that authors are referred to by the same name for Zotero to know that they are the same person. -
- CommentAuthorfshic
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2008
I had this same problem. You can "solve it" by retyping the names in the fields. It's possible that it has something to do with selecting an auto-completion name.
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